The New Mexico Botanist, Issue No. 1 September 1995 Introduction This marks the first issue of “The New Mexico Botanist.” This semiannual newsletter, issued jointly by the Range Science Herbarium and the Cooperative Extension Service of New Mexico State University, is dedicated to furthering and sharing our knowledge of the New Mexico flora. It will focus on floristic and taxonomic information of interest to the botanists of the state, such as new state records, nomenclatural notes and explanations, pertinent literature, reports of inventories and theses, threatened and endangered species, announcements and reports of meetings and conferences, and the like. Additionally, I will try to maintain a “Directory of New Mexico Botanists,” anticipating this will facilitate better communication and cooperation among us all. The New Mexico Botanist is not meant to be a source of publication of original research. I recommend making use of the usual avenues of publication, which I will then try to report in the newsletter. Perhaps an exception to this would be the inclusion in The New Mexico Botanist reports of new finds in the state and distribution records of interest to the state’s botanists. Obviously, I will be feeling my way a bit as we proceed. The usefulness of The New Mexico Botanist will be greatly enhanced by you. Please send me your comments, complaints, ideas, and contributions (see “Publication and Subscription Information” on the last page). I am especially interested in those obscure inventories and reports that are published by various agencies and corporations, but whose distribution is meager. I regularly peruse the standard technical journals commonly available at a university library (Brittonia, Rhodora, Phytologia, Systematic Botany, American Journal of Botany, Great Basin Naturalist, etc.), but please send along articles from less well-known journals. Note that the Calendar section is a bit sparse; I could use some additional coming events (keep in mind we only appear twice a year). And don’t be surprised if I call on you for a short article or report that I think will be of interest to us all. This inaugural issue includes the first installment of our “Directory of New Mexico Botanists” (page 3). Many thanks to all who responded with information for the Directory. My apologies for any errors in your listing. I will maintain a running column with additions and corrections to the Directory, so please send me errata, as well as information from those of you who were not included in the first listing. The directory will be kept in a separate data base, and a corrected, comprehensive copy may be requested from me at any time. Thank you for your interest in The New Mexico Botanist and in the flora of New Mexico — Kelly Allred, Editor World Wide Web and Gopher Sites of Interest to Botanists WWW Sites of Interest to Botanists http://meena.cc.uregina.ca/~liushus/bio/botany.html http://biomserv.univ-lyon1fr/Ecology-WWW.html Arizona Nature Conservancy http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/defs/independent/AZNC/AZlist.html Arnold Arboretum gopher://huh.harvard.edu/11collections_info/aa Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWWs (Botany) htt;://muse.bio.cornell.edu/taxonomy/botany.html A Biologist’s Guide to Internet Resources by Una R. Smith, 1993 gopher://sunsite.unc.edu/1m/../.pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution/bioguide/biogui de.item BIOSCI/bionet Electronic Newsgroup for Biology http://www.bio.net/ Bishop Museum Botany Page http://job.hcc.hawaii.edu:8080/bishop/botany/botany.html Botany Department, University of Georgia http://dogwood.botany.uga.edu/ California State University Stanislaus Botany 3700 Home Page http://130.17.2.215/ Connecticut College Herbarium http://herbarium.conncoll.edu/ Detailed Family Descriptions http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/FAM_DESC\_fdlist.htm Flora of North America http://atg1.wustl.edu/FNA/ Gray Card Index gopher://huh.harvard.edu:70/11/project_information/authority/botany/gray_cards The Intermountain Herbarium, Utah State University http://www.biology.usu.edu/biology/plant.html International Organization for Plant Information http://life.anu.edu.au/biodiversity/iopi/iopi.html Lythraceae, The Loostrifes http://simon.kent.edu/Biology/SGraham.html Missouri Botanical Garden http://mobot.org/MoBot/welcome.html Montana Natural Heritage Program http://nris.msl.mt.gov/mtnhp/nhp-dir.html National Biological Service (NBS) http://www.its.nbs.gov/nbs/ Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (Oklahoma Biological Survey) http://obssun02.uoknor.edu/omnh/home.html Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory http://obssun02.uoknor.edu/biosurvey/onhi/home.html Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard university (links to herbarium and arboretum gopher servers) http://oeb.harvard.edu/ Plant Resources Information Laboratory http://lib-www.ucr.edu/gomez-pompa/ SMASCH Project http://www.calacademy.org/smasch.html Smithsonian Natural History, Department of Botany http:/nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/botany.html TAXACOM List Serve Archives http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/archive/taxacom.html Texas A&M University, Plant Taxonomy http://www.isc.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfphome1.html Texas Threatened and Endangered Species http://is.rice.edu/~shel/Herp/tx.endangered.html TROPICOS via Remote Managing Gigabytes http://keck.tamu.edu/cgiMG/wwwRMG.mobot.html University of Delaware Botanic Gardens gopher://bluehen.ags.udel.edu:71/hh/.botanic_garden/botanicg.html University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) http://nabalu.flas.ufl.edu/flashome.html University of Guelph, Botany Department http://www.uoguelph.ca/CBS/Botany/botany.htm University of Toronto Botany Server http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/ University of Wisconsin, Botany Gopher gopher://gopher.adp.wisc.edu:3000/7?botany Vatican Exhibit - Herbals http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhitit/g- nature/Botany.html Literature Reports Allred, K.W. 1994. A new name for Aristida hamulosa (Gramineae). Phytologia 7(5):411-413. Anderson, L.C. 1995. The Chrysothamnus-Ericameria connection (Asteraceae). Great Basin Naturalist 55(1):84-88. [Completes the submergence of Chrysothamnus into Ericameria; see Nesom & Baird 1993.] Barkworth, M.E. 1993. North American Stipeae (Gramineae): Taxonomic changes and other comments. Phytologia 74(1):1-25. [Stipa perplexa.] Barneby, R.C. 1991. Sensitivae Censitae. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 65:1-835. [A thorough and detailed treatment of the mimosoid genera of Fabaceae s.l.] Bierner, M.W. 1994. Submerger of Dugaldia and Plummera in Hymenoxys (Asteraceae: Heliantheae: Gaillardiinae). Sida 16(1):1-8. [Completes the transfer of much of the old Helenium to Hymenoxys.] Chinnappa, C.C. 1992. Stellaria porsildii, sp. nov., a new member of the S. longipes complex (Caryophyllaceae). Syst. Bot. 17(1):29-32. Dorn, R.D. 1995. A taxonomic study of Salix section Cordatae subsection Luteae (Salicaceae). Brittonia 47:160-174. [See also Dorn’s earlier Willows of the Rocky Mountain States. Rhodora 79:390-429. 1977.] Fryxell, P.A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz.-Nev. Acad. Sci. 27(2):222-236. [Gives an up- to-date accounting of southwestern Malvaceae, excluding Sphaeralcea.] Grimes, J.W. 1990. A revision of the New World species of Psoraleae (Leguminosae: Papiloinoideae). Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 61:1-113. Hess, W.J. and R.C. Sivinski. 1995. A new species of Zigadenus (Liliaceae) from New Mexico, with additional comments on the section Anticlea. Sida 16(3):389-400. [Zigadenus mogollonensis.] Jones, S.D., C.T. Bryson, and J.E. Ubelaker. 1993. Carex blanda and Kyllinga odorata (Cyperaceae) new to New Mexico and a significant range extension of Cyperus retrorsus. Sida 15(3):552-553. Jones, S.D. and G.D. Jones. 1993. Cyperus setigerus (Cyperaceae) new for New Mexico. Sida 15(4):655-656. Ladyman, J.A.R. 1995. Status assessment of Trifolium longipes ssp. neurophyllum. New Mexico Natural Heritage Program, Albuquerque. Kartesz, J.T. and K.N. Gandhi. 1995. Nomenclatural notes for the North American flora. XIV. Phytologia 78(1):1-17. [Sporobolus compositus replaces S. aspera.] Kearns, D.M. 1994. The genus Ibervillea (Cucurbitaceae): An enumeration of the species and two new combinations. Madrono 41(1):13-22. Knight, P.J. and A.C. Cully. 1991. A new species of Astragalus (Fabaceae) from southeastern New Mexico. Southw. Naturalist 36(2):198-200. [Astragalus kerrii] Lowrey, T.K. and P.J. Knight. 1994. Townsendia gypsophila (Compositae: Astereae): a new species from northern New Mexico. Brittonia 46:194-199. Matthews, J.F., D.W. Ketron, and S.F. Zane. 1992. The reevaluation of Portulaca pilosa and P. mundula (Portulaceae). Sida 15:71-89. [Reaffirming the submergence of Portulaca mundula.] Mayfield, M.H. 1993. New combinations in Chamaesyce A. Gray (Euphorbiaceae) from Texas and the Chihuahuan Desert. Phytologia 75(2):178-183. McDonald, C. ed. 1995. Endangered plants notes and news. Number 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, N.M. Ecological Services State Office, 2105 Osuna NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113. [An “irregularly published series of notes” on endangered plant species. This issue includes notes on Trifolium longipes, a sensitive plant survey in the Jemez Mts, various projects on Sclerocactus, Astragalus, Echinocereus, Pediocactus, Cirsium, Helianthus, Ipomopsis, and Puccinellia, and reports on category updates.] McIntosh, L. 1994. First report of Castilleja ornata (Scrophulariaceae) from the United States. Phytologia 76:329-332. McKinney, L.E. 1992. A taxonomic revision of the acaulescent blue violets (Viola) of North America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 7:1-60. Nesom, G.L. 1990. Taxonomic summary of Ericameria (Asteraceae: Astereae), with the inclusion of Haplopappus sects. Macronema and Asiris. Phytologia 68(2):144-155. Nesom, G.L. 1990. Taxonomy of the genus Laennecia (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytologia 68(3):205-228. Nesom, G.L. 1990. Studies in the systematics of Mexican and Texas Grindelia (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytologia 68(4):303-332. Nesom, G.L. 1990. Taxonomy of Erigeron bellidiastrum (Asteraceae: Astereae), with a new variety. Phytologia 69(3):163-168. [Var. arenarius.] Nesom, G.L. 1991. Taxonomy of Isocoma (Compositae: Astereae). Phytologia 70:69- 114. Nesom, G.L. 1991. A new species of Erigeron (Asteraceae: Astereae) from northwestern New Mexico.